I'm restoring a 1989 100HP Mariner 2 stroke. When I got it, it had been sitting for 15 years. The fuel lines look to have been previously replaced with weed eater fuel line and they had dry rotted so that there was only a small piece around the nipple under the zip tie. I went to boats.net and ordered the OEM fuel line and installed it. The engine runs, but it doesn't seem right for these lines to be seeping like they are.
I have already removed the zip ties and then replaced them with 8" zip ties like the service manual recommends. I pulled them as tight as I could get them by hand. I have noticed that when I first go to start the engine, the fuel bulb never gets hard like on my other boat. It is a new bulb that I replaced this summer. I can feel the fuel in it, but it isn't hard. I can continue pumping it and eventually I just see fuel coming out the front of the carbs when I have the cover off the front.
Thoughts? Why doesn't the bulb get hard? Is it normal for the lines to slowly leak fuel? Check out my video and let me know. Thanks!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wJwqKCZaaqAnhWEr9
I have already removed the zip ties and then replaced them with 8" zip ties like the service manual recommends. I pulled them as tight as I could get them by hand. I have noticed that when I first go to start the engine, the fuel bulb never gets hard like on my other boat. It is a new bulb that I replaced this summer. I can feel the fuel in it, but it isn't hard. I can continue pumping it and eventually I just see fuel coming out the front of the carbs when I have the cover off the front.
Thoughts? Why doesn't the bulb get hard? Is it normal for the lines to slowly leak fuel? Check out my video and let me know. Thanks!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wJwqKCZaaqAnhWEr9